Harry Reid: House is ‘doing nothing’

The House of Representatives is failing at its own goal to roll back laws and is “doing nothing” legislatively, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday morning.

Responding to Speaker John Boehner’s comment on Sunday that Congress “should not be judged on how many laws we create” but “on how many laws we repeal,” Reid said Boehner and his leadership team aren’t even making headway on repealing laws, despite taking dozens of votes to roll back President Barack Obama’s health care law.

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“House Republicans are failing even by their own metric. They’ve replaced virtually nothing. So by the speaker’s own admission, they’re not getting anything passed and by his own analysis, they’re getting nothing repealed,” Reid said. “So they’re doing nothing.”

Reid’s sniping at the speaker marked a return to Boehner-bashing for the Nevada Democrat after nearly two weeks of internal Senate negotiations over nominees and a proposed rules change. But Reid did have one suggestion for the House leadership if its members insist on repealing laws; and it wasn’t Obamacare.

“If my Republican colleagues are looking for a law to repeal, they should take a look at the mean-spirited sequester law,” Reid said. “All they need to do is work with us. We can’t do it alone. We need Republicans’ help.”